Website Of The Day: Last FM

I love Last FM for many reasons. The first being that like geeksugar, it was nominated for a Webby last week because it's just plain great. The second, being that the site offers an alternative to downloading music onto your computer and a forum to meet people that love all different types of music.

How does it work? You listen to your music with your computer's music player or your iPod and Last.fm "scrobbles" your playlists, which means every song you listen to with Last.fm becomes part of your music profile. In essence, the site keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalized to you.

After that you can create personal music charts automatically, find your "musical soul mates," generate a personal radio station and see what your friends are listening to. The site is free. To learn how to post your favorite sites to the Website of the Day group, read more

I know that this long list looks scary, but trust me, once you get the hang of it, it'll be a snap the second time around.

Hey Beanalby (and everyone else here), don't worry, Last.fm isn't going anywhere! Thanks for your great comments, we always like to hear that people are enjoying the site. Lots of new features on their way soon.ThanksLast.fm Team

Hey Beanalby (and everyone else here), don't worry, Last.fm isn't going anywhere!
Thanks for your great comments, we always like to hear that people are enjoying the site. Lots of new features on their way soon.
Thanks
Last.fm Team

I've been using last fm for a while now, and I like it alot. But Pandora has actually opened my ears to more new music than last fm has. Even if you don't like them, type in Spice Girls into Pandora, you will get some really cool stuff!

Unfortunately last.fm is likely going to shut down, or need to completely change their business model, in May - to account for the new Internet Radio Royalty Rates that are scheduled to take effect.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070416-internet-radio-dealt-severe-blow-as-copyright-board-rejects-appeal.html
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/20/1243251&tid=188
In short, instead of the current model where sites must may 12% for royalties (which works well for sites with little/no income), now there's a fixed per song per LISTENER fee. For a station that has 10,000 listeners, this will end up being being about $1.2 MILLION for a year.
This covers ALL music too, not just the labels (I still don't understand fully how that works). An appeal of this just failed. If it goes into effect, it'll essentially kill ALL internet radio except those backed by major corporiations who can eat the fees.

Unfortunately last.fm is likely going to shut down, or need to completely change their business model, in May - to account for the new Internet Radio Royalty Rates that are scheduled to take effect.http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070416-internet-radio-dealt-severe-blow-as-copyright-board-rejects-appeal.htmlhttp://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/20/1243251&tid=188In short, instead of the current model where sites must may 12% for royalties (which works well for sites with little/no income), now there's a fixed per song per LISTENER fee. For a station that has 10,000 listeners, this will end up being being about $1.2 MILLION for a year.This covers ALL music too, not just the labels (I still don't understand fully how that works). An appeal of this just failed. If it goes into effect, it'll essentially kill ALL internet radio except those backed by major corporiations who can eat the fees.

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